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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I would say that almost no one in the group needs the JTAG
interface stuff. The embedded mavens who can’t live without probing
individual memory bytes or running insight to step through the execution will
need it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>There are two modes for the USB port and it is “autosensing”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you need to hang the Beagleboard on your computer as a USB
device you need one cable. When the thing is running standalone and is a
SBC to itself needing to hook up to USB Ethernet appliances, hubs, etc.,
you need a different cable and then it will set itself up as the host and not
as a peripheral device.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>On the SD card programming, I bought an SD card at Staples
which came with a USB SD adapter and this shows up as /dev/sdX in Linux.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I purchased the DVI cable so I could sit at the console with the
usb keyboard, mouse, and Ethernet device plugged into the hub I bought.
Did I NEED any of that? NO because most of what people are going to want
to do is cross compile and dump code to it and tell it go run it until you blow
up. When displaying X11 graphics, etc. the thing is slow as you might
expect and most of us will set inittab to level 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>As we build the project out we can make our own
recommendations. Rick Hambly was most helpful to me as was that list you
speak of in getting going. I am on the road from Sunday for over a week
so I won’t personally be doing anything until after Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>ARRL SDR Working Group Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>"And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> frank.brickle@gmail.com
[mailto:frank.brickle@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Brickle<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bob McGwier<br>
<b>Cc:</b> hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [hpsdr] Sasquatch II<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>In preparation for order a BB
for myself, I'm going through the list of necessary and recommended
(connectors, PS, and whatnot) add-ons. It's very confusing. Most of the
Shopping List is of the form, "If you want to do X, you'll need Y."
My problem isn't knowing whether I need Y, it's knowing whether I'll need to do
X.<br>
<br>
(The mere fact of finding this so confusing probably should probably disqualify
me from taking it on at all, but never mind.)<br>
<br>
Can anybody suggest a reasonably rich starting config, that is, enough to do
some real development without going overboard on bells and whistles?<br>
<br>
73 and thanks<br>
Frank<br>
AB2KT<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Bob McGwier <<a
href="mailto:rwmcgwier@gmail.com">rwmcgwier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>***** High Performance Software
Defined Radio Discussion List *****<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>And I strongly recommend this group:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard?hl=en" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard?hl=en</a><br>
<br>
The Armstrong developers are there and there is a huge amount of traffic.<br>
The archives are brimming with details.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Bob<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
ARRL SDR Working Group Chair<br>
Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats,<br>
NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC.<br>
"And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom<br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:hpsdr-bounces@lists.hpsdr.org">hpsdr-bounces@lists.hpsdr.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:hpsdr-bounces@lists.hpsdr.org">hpsdr-bounces@lists.hpsdr.org</a>]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Behalf Of Alberto I2PHD<br>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:01 AM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org">hpsdr@lists.hpsdr.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Sasquatch II<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion
List *****<br>
<br>
Bob McGwier wrote:<br>
><br>
> The OMAP3530 is a good SoC. It will run Linux and well on the ARM.
The<br>
> NEON is a very good floating point SIMD engine. We could have a<br>
stand-alone<br>
> dsp enhanced computer with networking capability, monitor as well as small<br>
> LCD support, and burning under 2 watts!<br>
<br>
I have a Beagleboard since two or three weeks, and doing some experiments<br>
with it, made complicated by my lack of<br>
knowledge of the Linux world. I have been able to put into an SD card the<br>
image of the Armstrong-demo Linux, and run<br>
successfully it. My attempts to install on a different SD card a version of<br>
Debian Lenny are unsuccessful so far, as the<br>
installer at a certain point wants to connect to Internet to download<br>
required pieces of code, and the couple of<br>
USB<=>WiFi dongles that I tried on the BB are not supported.<br>
<br>
My questions :<br>
<br>
A) What distribution would you choose to use the BB as a development<br>
platform for SDR-related purposes ?<br>
Debian ? Armstrong ? Ubuntu (I read that it exists a port of
Ubuntu to<br>
the BB) ?<br>
<br>
B) Does anybody have a completely installed and usable image of such a<br>
distribution that he is willing to share, so that<br>
I just need to copy it into an SD card ?<br>
<br>
Many thanks from a Linux newcomer...<br>
<br>
73 Alberto I2PHD<br>
<br>
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